Behind us: the unknown. Before us: the secret.

Ultimate novelty must be a situation where all boundaries are dissolved.

We have to recognize that the world is not something sculptured and finished, which we as perceivers walk through like patrons in a museum; the world is something we make through the act of perception.

The state in the matter of drugs should not, any more than in the matter of sex, act as the secret agent for the agenda of the church.

I started out in psychedelic drugs, and people said it was a flight from reality. It still is a flight from reality, but I think reality is now a bit more scary than the drugs we used to fly from it, so long ago.

We love to congratulate ourselves on the forward-leaning liberal society that we live in, and the truth is it's a bunch of rattle snake-handling fundamentalists that are much closer to Stalin than they are to FDR or anybody else like that.

Science does not deal with subjective experience... Well that's too bad because that is all any of us ever have.